PT – I’ve got a text message from Sean Hannity saying the fake news boys want to have a secret conference with me.

VPP – That seems fairly unusual. I’d suspect some kind of trap.

PT – You’re too suspicious Mike. But if I do have them here I’ll make sure the Secret Service uses cavity searches and their new cosmic ray scan. That should fry any electronics they’re hiding and their brains and gonads. But since they have neither there shouldn’t be a problem.

VPP – Very prudent sir. But please show particular restraint in what you say. They are not your friends.

PT – Duh. Set up the White House bunker and go over the details with Hannity. I’ve got a movie date with the First Lady. We’re getting an advance screening of Deadpool 2. It’s gonna be epic. I’m gonna wear my costume.

VPP – Oh good.

Scene 2 – 10 pm, White House bunker; A room half full of journalists and the President entering with his Secret Service Detail.

SH – Thanks for taking time out for these Media celebrities Mr President. They were very anxious to meet with you.

PT – Sean, what the hell are you talking about? These aren’t celebrities. They’re disgraced losers. Just look at them. They’re all wearing track suits and I don’t think any of them has showered this month. Now I’m feeling bad for the Secret Service guys who had to administer the cavity searches.

SH – In many ways you are right but please hear them out. They’ve really suffered a lot and they need your help.

PT – Sean, you’re really starting to slip. Well tell them to make it snappy. I have to have the Deadpool 2 disc back in three hours and I want to watch it again.

SH – Yes, Mr. President.

PT – Alright Brokaw, what do you want?

TB – Mr. President, don’t you think it’s unjust for a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist such as myself to be hounded from the newsroom by the #metoo movement while a proven philanderer and solicitor of prostitutes such as yourself is allowed to keep the highest office in the land and wield the almost god-like power of the nuclear button?

PT – No! Next.

TB – Hey, you can’t …

PT – Toss him on the street and don’t be gentle. (Brokaw is noisily manhandled out of the room by the Secret Service)

PT – Next. Alright Charlie Rose, what’s your story?

CR – Mr. President. If you’ll make a few phone calls and set up a spot for me on Fox I can guarantee that you’ll be my first interview. Now my journalistic integrity won’t permit me to overlook your racist positions on immigration and affirmative action but if you show sufficient contrition and agree to appointing Hillary Clinton to your cabinet as Attorney General I can guarantee to at least keeping an open mind about endorsing you in 2020 or at least treating you like John McCain, you know mild disdain.

PT – Rose you’re the creepiest looking dude since that guy on Tales from the Crypt. You give gropers a bad name. Guys don’t just rough him up. Water board him for a week or two. (Rose is dragged away whining morosely as usual)

PT – Well, Weinstein, you’re the only one left. But you’re not even a journalist. Why are you here?

HW – Mr. President, I’m not a journalist, I’m a business man just like you. And as a fellow businessman you know how unfair it is to mix business and personal life when business decisions are made. And because of that I want you to grant me a presidential pardon and get the Hollywood Commission to reinstate me at the Weinstein Company. If you do this for me I’ll donate generously to your campaign fund and I’ll see to it that many beautiful starlets are available for, let us say, private conferences.

PT – Harvey, you potted plant polluter, there are no words to describe my disgust at your lack of class. Let’s face it, the way you look, you should have been honest enough to admit to yourself that all your sex would be on a cash basis. Guys, just get him out of here as quickly as possible and make sure all the vegetable life in the White House has been disinfected before the First Lady wakes up tomorrow. (Weinstein is given the bum’s rush out the door)

PT – Hannity I have half a mind to ban you from the White House for a year. What made you think I had anything to say to these losers?

SH – Well Mr. President, not to put too fine a point on it, I assumed that your treatment at the hands of the Pussy Hat brigade would make you at least somewhat sympathetic toward their plight. After all, how different are you from them?

PT – Sean, that is the stupidest thing you’ve ever said. The difference between them and me is they don’t understand women. I do. They try to coerce women who work for them into doing what they don’t want to do. I only want women who are convinced I’m the best deal they’ll ever find.

SH – What about Stormy Daniels?

PT – That was just a pit stop. And besides nobody twisted her arm, or anything else if I recall correctly. So Sean, the next time you get a call from one of these guys, just hang up and dip the phone in Lysol.

VPP – Well sir, is it really a priority to find jobs for such obviously wealthy individuals?

PT – You’re missing the point Mike. These cheap bastards are probably already signed up for food stamps and Obamacare. We can’t let them free-ride on the backs of decent working Americans. I will address this on prime-time television tonight. Get my speech writers in here right away.

PT – Good evening my fellow Americans. I know I’ve pre-empted Big Bang Theory or whatever it is you watch now but I need your attention, so put the bong down and try to focus.

I know you are all aware of the almost endless list of #metoo pervs. What you may not be aware of is that almost everyone of them are my personal enemies. Well anyway, I’ve decided that I shouldn’t waste an opportunity. With all these scumbags out of work and fighting enormous lawsuits I have decided to promote a new program FEET. That stands for full employment for the enemies of Trump. You see the “for,” “the” and “of” aren’t included in the acronym. That’s pretty standard.

So how it will work is that in exchange for the federal government paying off their lawsuits and keeping them out of prison they’ll be interned at a work camp in North Dakota for five years. There they’ll spend their days providing power for the oil derricks. I don’t have any real information yet but I’m imagining they’ll be chained to a big wheel like that one that Arnold Schwarzenegger was turning in Conan the Barbarian. That would be kind of cool and the walking around in a circle gives the whole FEET thing a tie-in. And they’ll spend their nights cleaning toilets and spittoons in the shale oil patch saloons and strip joints. And I’ve given the proprietors of those establishments specific instructions if any of our boys gets out of hand with the ladies there. Let’s just say there will be some trans-gendering that won’t have to be paid for by the federal government, if you take my meaning. And finally, as a condition of their service they will have to take 5,000 hours of Trump harassment training. Utilizing the latest advances in high voltage aversion training techniques they will truly learn to love the “Dear Leader” as my short fat North Korean friend would phrase it.

Okay, that’s all, you can light up another bowl of weed now. But for pity’s sake go to work tomorrow. We’re trying to make America great again. Do something! Trump out.

Since my readers don’t always stop by every day I figured I’d paste this poll on each post for a while to see what folks call themselves. This is the post the poll came from Who Are We?

… And that got me thinking. Who are the people who read my blog? I thought it might be fun to see what the cross-section looked like. If you feel like saying what you believe in, feel free to leave a comment and/or pick a label from the poll below. I think it might be interesting.

Scene 1: MSNBC studio set for the Rachel Maddow Show, the evening after the Academy Awards (The Harvies), Maddow and Ellen DeGeneres are seated at a table in the lounge area.

Ellen DeGeneres (ED) – Rachel I came as soon as I got your text. I cancelled an interview with President Obama.

Rachel Maddow (RM) – Oh, you shouldn’t have done that.

ED – Nah, I was glad to skip it. I’m so tired of being forced to make believe I want him to do that dance thing he does. Even I know straight women don’t find it sexy. Plus he’s got a new book coming out about community activism and my sponsors have warned me if my ratings get any lower I’m gonna have to find a side job as a rodeo clown.

RM – Breaking another barrier!

ED – Or several ribs. So, what’s up?

RM – Well, after last night’s awards fiasco I tried figuring out how all this could have gone so wrong. I mean we have Donald Trump on tape joking about sexual assault and not only isn’t he tarred, feathered and sent to prison but he waltzes into the White House. Meanwhile all these great progressive Hollywood men like Harvey and Kevin turn out to be rapists and psychopaths. I mean, I don’t get it.

ED – You’re right. It doesn’t make any sense. I’m a pretty close friend of Harvey’s and he never once came onto me or made a pass.

RM – Yeah, me neither. Something doesn’t make sense.

ED – Well, what do you think can be done? Maybe a march. Different hats?

RM – No. No more hats. My look is weird enough without hat hair.

ED – Then what?

RM – I have an idea. It’s pretty crazy but a good journalist needs to think outside of the box sometimes.

Scene 2: Next day, White House West Wing, President Trump at the Oval Office desk and Melania Trump entering the room.

Melania Trump (MT) – Schmoopy, guess who called for you.

President Trump (PT) – Schmoopy, I’m kinda busy right now for guessing games. That Nork Rocketman just called me a pumpkin head so I’m trying to have Mad Dog reposition some satellite lasers to melt down his favorite Rolls Royce into a slag heap.

MT – Hey, you can play around with your silly toys later, I just had to spend five minutes talking to Rachel Maddow that I can never get back.

PT – I’m very sorry. That is something that should never happen to a woman. I’ll have the satellites melt her down instead.

MT – No Schmoopy, the melting would be bad for the publicity. You must keep the dignity.

PT – Fine. What did that loser want?

MT – She wants the interview.

PT – Her, interview me?

MT – Yes, Schmoopy, she said any conditions you have will be agreed to.

PT – It must be a trick.

MT – No not the trick. She even cried a little. It was very sad.

PT – Alright Schmoopy, I’ll make some time for her this afternoon.

MT – Thank you Schmoopy, this makes you greater than the Reagan again.

RM – As you know I am one of your harshest critics. I find the fact of your presidency as one of the surest signs that America is a terrible and unjust place. I find everything about you reprehensible.

PT – Check. What do you want?

RM – I want you to tell me how you do it.

PT – Do what?

RM – Act like a sexist pig and get away with it when better men, progressive men are hounded out of public life for much, much less.

PT – You’re confused. You’re combining different things into one category and wondering why the outcomes are different.

RM – Can you be more specific?

PT – Yes. You’re a deluded imbecile who is confused about every aspect of human behavior.

RM – Can you do it without insulting me?

PT – It won’t be as much fun, but I’ll try.

RM – Thanks.

PT – I’ll give you some examples of things that you’re confusing together. If some old guy in a university who has spent his whole life advancing science, let’s say some Nobel Laureate in Biology, someone who has cracked the genetic code and basically invented modern biology, a man who has often made a point of advancing women in science and even hired them in his lab, if he makes a joke about young women being a distraction in his work place, what happens? You hound him out of his job, force every University to retract his awards, force an apology and then unperson him like some victim in Stalinist Russia. What is his crime?

RM – Sexual harassment and misogyny.

PT – Wrong on both. He has committed no crime. Telling you the truth about how he reacts to having the Spice Girls invade his professional space is not sexual harassment. It’s just being a man of his generation. And as for misogyny, that’s not a crime. It’s just a description of your perception of his relationship to women based on one statement. And I’m guessing that his wife of forty years and his female relatives would probably dispute it too.

RM – But what does this have to do with my question?

PT – Keep listening toots and maybe you’ll get it. Next example, if a microphone records me talking off the record to a Bush family operative about what women will allow me to do when they’re interested in dating a very rich man what is that.

RM – Proof of sexual assault.

PT – Wrong again. Exulting in the social advantages of being a very, very rich man is not a crime. If a woman is sexually attracted to rich men or even pretends to be in order to become associated with a wealthy man that is just one of the dynamics that exist between people in a free society.

RM – But what if she doesn’t want to be mauled by you?

PT – Do you remember anywhere in that tape where I said I force myself on any woman that wasn’t interested in that kind of behavior.

RM – How do we know you don’t?

PT – Because I’m smart enough to know I don’t have to and that it isn’t a good way to stay rich. I’ve been married three times. Basically, every time you try to separate yourself from a woman it’s going to be very expensive.

RM – Well, that’s cold-blooded but probably accurate.

PT – Sexual harassment is very expensive to hush up. Ask your buddy Harvey Weinstein. And speaking of whom, let’s conclude the list of examples with him. And what is it when Harvey Weinstein invites an actress to his hotel room for a job interview, disrobes in front of her, and chases her around the room trying to corner her for some form of sexual contact.

RM – Attempted rape.

PT – Maybe. But if she is an employee or a prospective employee it would certainly be the textbook legal definition of quid pro quo sexual harassment.

RM – Well, we finally agree on something.

PT – And that’s the problem. We agree that the third behavior is sexual harassment. You however think the other two examples are the same thing.

RM – But they are.

PT – And that’s why you can’t figure out why I don’t end up like the other two examples. In the first example you have a man who works for a university filled with people like you. They control the levers of power and unless you have a very good lawyer and lots of money they will destroy you by fiat. In the case of Weinstein, society is in agreement that coercing an employee into sexual contact against her will is sexual harassment. In my case you have two guys discussing how easy it is to score when you’re rich. Now, granted, it’s kind of boorish, but it’s no different from a woman describing how she got out of a speeding ticket by making eyes at a traffic cop. In neither case would you want your words to be recorded but we all use what we have to get ahead in this world. Whether it’s a pretty face or a nine-figure bank account it has its advantages. Is this starting to sink in?

RM – There is some sense to it. But it is horribly unfair.

PT – You mean like life?

RM – Yes.

PT – Welcome to the human race, kid. It’s full of surprises but unfairness is really not a surprise. It’s base case. So, now you see why you don’t understand what’s going on. You think if something’s unfair somebody, and probably a straight white man is responsible and should be held accountable for it. You’re blaming him for something that only God can fix. And since you don’t believe in God you need someone else to blame.

RM – Hmmm. You’ve given me some things to think about. But one thing I don’t understand.

PT – What?

RM – How come you sound so normal and intelligent. You’re very different in your public persona.

PT – We’re not in public.

RM – Oh.

PT – Alright Maddow, are we done?

RM – I guess so.

PT – Then get out. I have an interview coming up with Hannity and I have to figure out how to incorporate the words “huge” and “greatest” into a discussion about orange juice production. Oh, and by the way, if you’re hoping to get the ratings up on that show of yours it wouldn’t kill you to show a little cleavage.

Rachel Maddow (RM) – Hello post-patriarchy America. I’m here with Ellen to host the first rebranded Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards henceforth to be known as the Harvies.

Ellen DeGeneres (ED) – That’s right Rachel. It’s been renamed the Harvey to commemorate the Harvey Weinstein catalyzed revolt of the womyn. Even the statuette has been re-engineered. It’s still a nude figurine but in honor of its namesake it is a rather pear-shaped satyr with his castrated genitals on the base near his feet.

RM – Amazing artwork, really.

ED – Yes, indeedy.

RM – Ellen, let’s reflect on the changes we saw earlier on the red carpet walkway.

ED – Yes, Rachel, let’s. I thought it was very encouraging how all those strapless evening gowns and daring short skirts have disappeared from the runway to be replaced with sensible jumpsuits and snazzy tuxedettes.

RM – Yes, a breath of fresh air and so much fairer to some of our more mature colleagues. And how about the hair styles? I thought it was about time for Hollywood to rediscover the buzz cut.

ED – You said it sister. Nothing like a number two buzz cut to get you out of the shower in less than five minutes.

RM – And the addition of the Burka Parade was both brave and empowering somehow.

ED – Yes, somehow.

RM – Yes. Anyway, wasn’t it great not having to feel like some kind of display being gawked at by lecherous, lecherous men?

ED – Or lecherous, lecherous women! We are the equal of men in every way you know.

RM – Exactly.

ED – Yes, exactly.

RM – Yes. Now, where were we? Oh yes, breath of fresh air.

ED – Yes, fresh.

RM – So as an update to the audience, just today it was decided that Jimmy Kimmel having a beard and a wife was unsuitable for this first Harvies broadcast. So, in his place we’ve got Amy Schumer.

ED – Oh, that’s great. She’s really funny and she has those fat jokes that are very funny. But what about the swearing?

RM – Let ‘m fly!

ED – On ABC? Disney?

RM – Don’t get wobbly now Ellen. I am Womyn hear me Roar!

ED – Yeah, but I’m on ABC. We can’t afford to lose any more viewers. As it is I’m being payed per diem. If I lose anymore base, I’m gonna have to move over to one of the loser channels like MSNBC.

RM – Hey!

ED – I mean CNN.

RM – Exactly.

ED – Anyway, why don’t we run down the list of Best Picture nominees.

RM – Yes, let’s.

ED – Starting with the hands down favorite, Ghostbusters.

RM – What a hoot. It had everything, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones. And all of them were womyn!

ED – I think you’re right there Rachel. I think they all were womyn. Isn’t that something?

RM – Yes, indeedy.

ED – Now you’re using “yes indeedy?”

RM – sure I always use it. I can be folksy.

ED – Oh, fine.

RM – Anyway, what about the other nominees?

ED – Well, actually that’s the only nominee that wasn’t pulled from consideration for linkage to a director, producer or major star involved in a #metoo accusation.

RM -But how can we have a competition if there is only one nominee?

ED – What’s the problem? The rules say the nominee with the highest vote total wins. Where does it say you can’t have just one nominee?

RM – But all the lead actors are womyn how will we select a Best Actor award?

ED – Oh, they were all eliminated. We’re just gonna run the “Who Died This Year” clip instead.

RM – Hmmm. So Best Director, Best Actress, Best Song, Best Cinematography all go to Ghostbusters?

ED – It looks like a good bet.

RM – Well, then even I think this seems kind of pointless. How will we fill four hours of air time if all the awards are pre-determined?

ED – The acceptance speeches. Each winner will spend approximately twenty minutes ranting and foaming against the patriarchy and in particular, against the Men of Hollywood who have offended against us.

RM – Oh yeah. That’s right. This is gonna be good.

ED – Not to mention, at the three-hour mark there will be a forty five minute montage of all the #metoo victims and villains. It’s gonna be great.

RM – But won’t that kind of alienate male viewers.

ED – Actually we don’t have any, except the gay guys of course.

RM – Oh, of course. Plus, they can boo Kevin Spacey.

ED – That’s right. It’s a win/win.

RM – Well, this actually is sounding pretty fabulous. Now that we’ve conquered Hollywood and hold all the aces the future must look very bright.

ED – Well, actually this is also the last Harvies.

RM – Last? Why?

ED – Well without the male stars, writers, directors and producers the studios realized that no one would want to see the movies made by women. So, they closed down the businesses and put their money into realistic sexbots. Apparently, they’re where the smart money is going.

RM – Yeah, I guess we should’ve seen that coming.

ED – But what will all the actresses do?

RM – Work?

ED – What if they can’t?

RM – Well I hear the sexbot industry needs models to simulate sex to teach the sexbots. Could they do that?

ED – Yeah, in a funny way that’s kind of what they’re good at.

RM – Well, Amy’s taking the stage for her opening monologue. Good night PBS audience for this first and last Harvies Awards celebration. Good night everyone!

In that old Edgar Allen Poe story, the sailor describes how his boat is trapped by the whirlpool and progressively accelerates as it’s drawn deeper and deeper into the maw of the maelstrom. That’s kind of how it feels every day that I see what new atrocity has splatted onto the front page. Weinstein, Damon, Crowe, Affleck, Clooney, Meryl Streep, Mark Halperin, Roy Price, James Toback, Corey Feldman’s claims and now Kevin Spacey. The beat keeps accelerating and the depravity keeps amping higher. Now Rosie O’Donnell is saying “everyone always knew.” And they kept quiet? All those progressive saints let young women and younger boys enter the lion’s den without saying a word or warning them? At this rate it’ll be a full-on Fellini movie with the master of ceremonies played by Jeffrey Epstein. As glad as I am that the boil is being lanced it’s a dizzying display of putridity that seems to be oozing out of Hollywood from every direction. The only question seems to be does it end or just go on forever until there isn’t a single big name shot caller or movie star not implicated in either the depravity or the cover-ups? So, when does the media call out all these phonies and hypocrites on their sanctimony? All the women’s marches and preening at the Oscars about their superior morality? And for pity’s sake when do they get Whoopi Goldberg and Meryl Streep and the rest of the phonies to apologize for their defense of Roman Polansky? Or are “geniuses” given a Hollywood get out of jail free card for rape of children?

At the rate it’s going I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the older, less powerful producers start getting named. And then who knows? Maybe people might even start to believe Mia Farrow’s daughter and get Woody Allen kicked out of Hollywood. That would be something.

Of course, it’s hard to say if Hollywood will actually follow through on some of these banishments. I read that Netflix is cancelling season six of House of Cards. But I think that means they will continue with the 2018 season. Think of that. An accused pedophile is starring in one of the highest rated television dramas. So, will public outrage shut down that set or will money triumph? I guess stay tuned.

And the other thing to remember is that this problem is so wide-spread and so endemic that there are probably actors and directors that you like, that you think are good people who will be implicated. It’s bound to dishearten any cinemaphile.

Well anyway, the show will continue and seems still to be building up a full head of steam. And it’s having a very interesting effect. The Clooney/Damon feature Suburbicon opened up to laughably bad box office numbers. Now granted, Clooney’s directorial (and acting) efforts have been putrid so it could just be audiences trying not to waste money on painfully unentertaining fare. But it could also be people punishing the perps and the enablers. Hollywood just finished a dismal summer and even the super hero and other tentpole blockbusters were duds. Maybe Hollywood is starting to get their comeuppances. The right has stopped going to most of their movies. Perhaps Gen Z doesn’t like their stuff either. If that’s the case, this sex scandal may be the straw that actually does break the camel’s back. And really, it couldn’t happen to a nicer camel.

But as a fun experiment it would be interesting to see if the dissident right can figure out a way to rub Hollywood’s nose in this at Oscar time. Maybe some large display opposite the theater calling out all the phonies and reminding them that they are a cesspool. Maybe a mock awards ceremony called the Harvies. Awards could be given for hypocrisy, greatest number of victims and even some kind of lifetime achievement award for getting away with actual rape for the longest period of time. It could be called the Roman.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Breitbart put together a three-part article that combined an historical narrative on Hollywood’s communist roots along with a first-person story of left-wing bias against anyone who is to the right of Karl Marx. Reading it I learned something that I hadn’t known. The Hollywood Blacklist was actually a reaction to the Leftist Hollywood Graylist that had existed since the beginning of Hollywood and which controlled the ideology of movies by only permitting communist approved scripts from communist script writers. I had always known that the golden age movies were mostly the product of leftist and even communist writers and directors but I never realized that the control of the union that controlled the screen writers was a man who eventually became the president of the American Communist Party. Basically, the blacklisting was the result of the US government doing something about the Soviet Union controlling the largest propaganda machine in the world, Hollywood.

And more than sixty years later the Soviet Union no longer exists but Hollywood is even deeper under the control of people who believe in an ideology that combines the worst tenets of communism with an anti-western, anti-family anti-normal cult that threatens the very existence of this country. And they expect us to pay them for their poison.

So, what do I think of all this Hollywood uproar? All these actresses coming out of the woodwork and complaining about Weinstein, Damon, Crowe, Affleck et alia?

Not my problem. I wouldn’t let a woman I cared about within a mile of those creeps. We were told by Meryl Streep that Harvey Weinstein is a “god.” Of course, Baal was a “god” so maybe we didn’t get enough details. Harvey himself told us Hollywood had the best moral compass because it had compassion. Well I guess if you’re a four-hundred-pound satyr it probably makes sense to hope that those you attack have a whole boatload of compassion but maybe he’s right. After all they haven’t changed their minds about Roman Polansky and you’ve got to admit it takes a lot of compassion to overlook what he did to that 14 year-old-girl. Funny thing about that. Wonder if Meryl is rethinking her position on that one?

Recently the news is full of the disastrous ratings and ticket sales for TV and movie properties. Now why would that be? Well, in my estimation, white men have abandoned Hollywood and broadcast TV. And why have they done this? Because Hollywood has very clearly assigned white men (and especially normal white men) as the oppressor of everyone else. In their movies we are the enemy. At best we’re insensitive rubes who don’t respect the legitimate hatred of all these oppressed groups toward us. And at worst we’re cartoon villains twirling our moustaches as we tie the transgendered woman to the railroad track.

Then if you’re a normal white man what has Hollywood got that you want to pay for? Well, pretty much nothing. Even the action movies that used to lure us into theaters have been poisoned with venom against us and filled up with 95-pound girl-power heroines karate chopping their way through stadiums full of full sized men. Even the super hero and sci-fi summer blockbusters have become sermons against the dangers of being white men. They’ve kinda taken the fun out of it. Yep.

So, is it any wonder that demand is starting to tank? The article is written in the end as a cautionary tale meant to wake up the Hollywood establishment to their danger of running out of audience.

Yeah, well, no. Please don’t wake up. Run the damn thing into the ground and hurry up about it. Pump out another five hundred George Clooney/Matt Damon movies like Suburbicon. Please, by all means. Plough through every last cent of your capital on those kinds of projects. With any luck, you’ll be completely out of business by 2020. I guess that means the 3% of Hollywood types who are actually conservative will be out of work too. People I really like too.

Well, that’s too bad because it needs to go out of business. Because it’s a terrible place and it produces too much evil to make up for the little bit of good it does produce. Shut it down and sell it off for scrap to the Chinese.

Then maybe we can start from scratch and creative people will make movies that people want to see. Movies about people like us. People they can root for and care about. And movies that don’t tell them that they are bad people and that they should be replaced and that they should just disappear.

So that’s what it is. We want them to disappear, not us. Doesn’t seem too much to ask for.

Back in 2009 when attempts were underway to extradite Roman Polansky to the US to try him for the rape of a 13-year-old girl, Harvey Weinstein defended the morality of Hollywood’s support of Polansky with the following quote “Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion.” Well, it starts to make sense that Weinstein has compassion for a rapist. I guess he’s hoping the favor will be returned by his community. I don’t mean the community of rapists. That’s too small a group to help him. I think he’s hoping the Hollywood community will show him compassion. But it doesn’t look like he’s going to get a pass. A whole troop of former ingenues and struggling starlets are coming forward with staggering tales of a disgusting pig trading on his influence in a seedy industry to pressure young women into having sex with him. Now the fact that Harvey is a repulsively fat and ugly creature only makes the act grotesque. But even if he looked like Brad Pitt the cruelty and immorality of what he did is undeniable. So, he’s going to be roasted over the coals. And based on the latest reports he may also be liable for criminal charges. Apparently three women are now claiming actual rape. You know Whoopi? Rape, rape?

Poor Harvey, things aren’t looking so good. All his friends have deserted him. What’s a rapist to do? Where is his Polansky exception? After all he’s a rich liberal donor. Where’s the gratitude? Where are the Clintons and Obamas when they’re needed? People are saying it’s because times are changing and women won’t put up with abuse anymore.

Maybe.

But maybe it’s just Hollywood deciding that Harvey’s power and influence is slipping. Maybe this is payback from some other power broker that Harvey rubbed the wrong way. Maybe even the Clintons. I read that the Clintons didn’t think Harvey was supportive enough. Maybe this is more Arkansas Revenge. Considering Bill’s proclivities, it would be ironic indeed if it came from him. But regardless of the actual cause of the downfall the real question is where was the compassion for his victims?

Meryl Streep was a great friend of Harvey Weinstein. She worked with him and gushed about his abilities. But she still maintains that she knew nothing of his casting couch. Apparently, she’s the only one in Hollywood who didn’t. Unless she’s a moron, she’s lying. And as much as I’d love to call her a moron I’m gonna have to go with liar. And so, the question is, where was Meryl’s compassion for his victims?

And how about all the other actors and actresses and other studio types who helped Harvey procure his victims or else just kept quiet about their existence? Where was all this great compassion? What about the much-vaunted moral compass? Did it merely point to fortune and fame? These are the people who go on endlessly about gay rights and trans-rights and animal rights and veganism and climate change. And these are the people who went insane because a woman didn’t get to be President of the United States. And these are the people who marched through the streets with stupid pink hats on because a rich guy admitted “off the record” the deep dark secret that some women are greedy enough to let a lout have his way with them just because he’s rich.

Well, doesn’t that make them hypocrites and cowards? If they really care about women’s welfare so highly then aren’t they therefore nothing but greedy cowards if they put their own monetary considerations ahead of these young people being victimized? Seems so to me. Sorry Meryl. You stand convicted of being a greedy coward. The only compassion you had was for yourself. Same as Harvey. Same as Polansky. So maybe the Polansky defenders can explain why they have compassion for their sister actresses now finally after all these years of Weinstein’s harassment but not before. And maybe they can explain why they still have no compassion for the 13-year-old girl that was abused all those years ago. Isn’t she a woman too?